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title: Look at this your son, and think of his twelve years; ah! they have… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Look at this your son, and think of his twelve years; ah! they have made him a stronger man, though a boy yet, than his father. Who acts: you, clothing. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 82

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Look at this your son, and think of his twelve years; ah! they have made him a stronger man, though a boy yet, than his father.

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**Who acts:** you, clothing · **What happens:** look, think, make · **To what, where:** stronger man, Son

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, clothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:19:82
# text = Look at this your son, and think of his twelve years; ah! they have made him a stronger man, though a boy yet, than his father.
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at your son | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at son=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | clothing | a stronger man | Son |  | yet | boy's father *conj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary man=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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